Owais Mughal
As of right now, time is 8:31 p.m CST and following are the first 4 out of 6 headlines on front page of Pakistan’s largest English daily.
(1) Lahore: Spate of attacks leaves 27 dead, 30 injured.
(2) Quetta: Two injured in grenade attack
(3) Peshawar: Huge blast strikes, several injured
(4) Kohat: Eleven killed in suicide attack
What has World come up to? What has happened to my dear Pakistan where I used to roam care free? I can also wirte a long ‘jazbaati’ post but words have lost meanings in these numbing times. The truth is that I am also out of words to express myself to any more superlatives of anguish and sorrow. The same sad story has been written and discussed several times at ATP pages in past 2 years. It is also a reason that it took me several hours to finally come around and write this post. Very naively I was hoping for all bad news to somehow go away so I don’t have to write this. How childish of me.
We want peace. I want peace.
tum apne aqeedoN ke nezay, har dil mein utaare jaate ho
ham log mohabbat waale hain, tum khanjar kiyooN lehraate ho
is shehr meiN naghme behnay do
is shehr meiN hum ko rehnay do
ham paalun-har haiN phooloN ke, hum khushboo ke rakh-waale haiN
tum kis ka lahoo peene aaye, hum pyar sikhaane waale haiN
Ahmed Faraz
I don’t know what to make of the attacks. I can see my beloved country been torn apart day in day out but unfortunately we general public don’t have any power like our rulers who don’t want to use their power nor their discretion but they like to be herded like a flock of sheep. I remember a very good example of leadership. Someone defined leadership as “A person with sight (visionary) can lead hundred blinds across a bridge” but I think that same is true the other way, “If a group of people who can see follow a blind or vision less leader they are more likely to fall down the cliff”. Believe you me we can solve all our problems if and only if our leaders get a bit of “jigar” and stand up for our country. But hay they are busy accumulating dollars.
Though overall situation seems to be very grim but the way these renegades are trying to terrorise Pakistanis show their nervousness. They seem to be losing ground as reaction from public is very harsh and sever ,above all brave .
Things are being handled by law enforcing agencies in a much betterway now
Soon the terrorists will all vanish,once Wazirastan is reconqured. Hope so.
How many more will have to be killed before anything is done by our ‘leaders’?
Pakistan’s population of 167million is tired of all this terrorism. 99% are not terrorists and that one % is able to ruin it for all of us because our ‘leader’s allow them to!
These attacks have shown that:
1. My opinion that our ‘security’ agencies are pathetic is now confirmed. Our Police, Army, ISI, MI or whatever intelligence agencies are all pathetic and are unable to cope with what they are faced. They cannot protect themselves, how will they protect us civilians? There is no doubts in my mind anymore that they are useless. I am sorry if I hurt any patriotic Pakistanis here but I too am patriotic and love my Pakistan. I am just stating the obvious here. Not only these ‘security’ agencies are poor, they also lack all types of equipments. After being in this war for over 8 years now, we still do not have proper equipments. How ridiculous is that?
2. Once again, denials and more denials!! Nobody is ready and willing to accept the FACT that there are terrorists in southern Punjab. Police officials, Governors etc are denying it. Although groups like LASHKAR-E-JHANGVI, SIPAH-E-SAHABA PAKISTAN (SSP), JAISH-E-MOHAMMAD, LASHKAR-E-TAIBA are from these areas.
http://tinyurl.com/yjkfvnr
How are we going to win if these in charge are bloody blind? Do they want to solve the problem? I think not!
3. Any operation in Waziriztan (if it even happens) will not solve anything. Au contraire, there will be more and more terrorists acts across the country and since we have nobody to protect us, more innocents will perish. Our economy will totally collapse now.
4. The Government does not have what it takes to fight the enemy. Malik, the puppet voice of the Gov, can make all the claims in the world but he is not convincing anybody. The Army did a decent job and cleared most of Swat, but military action is only PART of the solution; where are the new schools? Are a new and efficient police force being built in Swat? What’s the Gov doing in Swat? Nothing according to various reports.
Pakistan is a weak country with a weak economy, weak Government and a weak security. (392000 underpaid, underequiiped, under trained police for 167 millions civilians.. Wow!)It cannot cope with attacks after attacks from all corners of the country.
How long before terrorists in Sindh wake up and we see these happening in Karachi?
Blackwater in Islamabad, CIA in Peshawar, an insurgency in Balochistan, terrorists in Punjab and FATA .. the country is going to be finished.
Another suicide attack by a burqa clad woman in Peshawar. 13 dead so far.
A Nation in a state of denial!!!